Manfred Hammes

Manfred Hammes (born March 19, 1950 in Trier ) is a German journalist, writer and filmmaker with a focus on cultural and literary history.

Life

After studying law in Cologne and completing an internship in Heidelberg, Manfred Hammes worked as an editor and lecturer for a legal and technical publisher. Afterwards he was the publishing manager of a daily newspaper publisher in Central Baden, before he set up one of the big German corporate publishing houses as managing director . From 2005 to 2016 Hammes was managing director of the "Wirtschaftsregion Offenburg / Ortenau" (WRO). The WRO coordinates public relations and location marketing for the Ortenaukreis and another 50 cities and communities.

Works

• Witch madness and witch trials , S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 1977
• The Amazons. On mother law and the invention of the man giving birth , S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 1981
• In the Loire Valley : A literary travel companion , Suhrkamp / Insel, Frankfurt 2007
• Tell me about the south , a literary journey through Provence , Languedoc and along the Côte d'Azur , Wunderhorn Verlag, Heidelberg 2008
• From the office and the soup pot (Les Mots à la Bouche I) . A documentary film with literary and culinary walks in Languedoc-Roussillon with the participation and a. the writers Ysabelle Lacamp , Birgit Vanderbeke and Frédéric Jacques Temple and the cook Jérôme Nutile . Produced by Calicot productions, Paris, and TV Sud, Montpellier. A film by Manfred Hammes. Directed by Antoine Chosson. First broadcast in 2012
• Heavenly places on the Upper Rhine: Kippenheimer Haselstaude , Kulturverlag Art und Weise, Schliengen 2013
• The invisible circle: Rilke in Rippold's Au , Drey Verlag, Gutach 2013
• Literary and gastronomic walks through Marseille (Les Mots à la Bouche II) . A documentary with a focus on German-language exile literature. With the participation u. a. by Alain Chouraqui , Professor at CNRS and President of the Camp des Milles Foundation, Ulrich Fuchs, Program Director of the European Capital of Culture Marseille-Provence 2013, Sébastien Izzo , son of Jean-Claude Izzo , author of the Marseille trilogy and Pierre Radvanyi , son of Anna Seghers , professor of nuclear physics at the Collège de France. Produced by Calicot productions, Paris, and TV Sud, Montpellier. A film by Manfred Hammes. Directed by Nicolas Pinchinot. First broadcast in 2014
• Witch trials: causes and procedural principles , Verlag des Historisches Verein Mittelbaden, 95th year book, Offenburg 2015
• The discovery of cleanliness , Meiko Verlag, Offenburg 2017
• Through the south of France: literature, art, cuisine , Nimbus Verlag, Wädenswil am Zürichsee 2019
• Encounters / Rencontres of the German-French style. With drawings by Rainer Ehrt. Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2019

Web links

• Literature by and about Manfred Hammes in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Manfred Hammes